He contentedly played bandleader instead of superstar, often disappearing backstage for stretches as the band jammed.
And as a jazz bandleader, his quartets and trios translate his post-idiomatic artistic outlook into spiky, supercharged songs.
In addition to being a drummer, Roach was also a composer, a bandleader, an activist and a teacher.
That's a million a year for bandleader Axl Rose, who's been living the reclusive life in lovely Malibu, Calif.
He celebrated 30 years as a bandleader in 1987 with the release of the album As Time Goes By.
The Roosevelt Hotel, near Grand Central Terminal, opened in 1924 and was celebrated bandleader Guy Lombardo's performance venue for 30 years.
In the midst of his midcareer doldrums, Duke Ellington was offered some business advice by a bandleader flush with success.
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Singer Patty Loveless, pedal steel player Tommy White and George Jones' former bandleader Ronnie Gaddis all began at the Jamboree.
Mr. WANG: Viva Tirado began life in the early 1960s as a composition by Los Angeles jazz bandleader Gerald Wilson.
Another jazz lady famous for going her own way is Carla Bley, a composer-bandleader who combines a taste for rich sonorities with post-modern whimsy.
Later, in San Francisco, she formed a singing group called the Creolettes, who were discovered by bandleader Johnny Otis, who coincidentally also died this week.
Within five years, he found himself cutting records with jazz greats such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, in addition to recording his own material as a bandleader.
It was hardly a first for the bandleader: Mingus had tried to do the same a few years before to saxophonist Jackie McLean, who held him off with a knife.
WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten
What I remember was a bandleader as frenetic as Mick Jagger or James Brown, a singer bursting with almost self-destructive urgency, trying to bust through the buzzy indifference of the crowd.
As bandleader, his various ensembles have expressed manifold inclinations.
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So for a more objective assessment of his essays on pop culture (which include ruminations on rapper Mos Def, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson and jazz bandleader Billy Eckstein), read this recent review.
In 1959, Columbia Records released three discs poised to set the future course of jazz: Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue, " Dave Brubeck's "Time Out" and "Mingus Ah Um" by bassist, bandleader and composer Charles Mingus.
WSJ: Mercurial Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | Masterpiece by Eric Felten
Temperley will also pay tribute to the hugely influential bandleader, pianist and composer dubbed "The Duke" when he directs the Edinburgh Jazz Festival Orchestra for a handpicked programme of the music of the great Duke Ellington.
Beginning with his debut as a leader, 1969's "The DeJohnette Complex" (Milestone), he displayed an innovative streak as bandleader: The 1979 version of his Special Edition was particularly influential for its fire, wit and genre-spanning approach.
WSJ: Jack DeJohnette | Playing Musical Chairs | Cultural Conversation by Larry Blumenfeld
There's a moment in a New Orleans club when the drummer's in the pocket, the sweaty crowd is gyrating and spilling out into the street and the bandleader pushes the music relentlessly faster like a potter spinning an enormous wheel.
By now, a fairly wide assortment of pop-music fans would know what I was talking about if I noted that, in the late 1960s, bandleader Fela Kuti invented a style called Afrobeat with the key collaboration of his drummer, Tony Allen.
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